Brahmanbaria, Feb. 22 -- A case was filed on Sunday against around 150 people including BNP leaders and activists over allegations of blocking newly elected MP Rumeen Farhana from paying tribute at a Shaheed Minar in Sarail upazila and assaulting her supporters.

Ahad, a supporter of Rumeen Farhana, filed the case with Sarail Police Station.

Former Sarail upazila BNP general secretary Anwar Hossain has been named as the prime accused.

Officer-in-Charge of Sarail Police Station Manjur Kader Bhuiyan said the case names five accused while 140 to 150 others have been listed as unidentified.

According to the case statement, when Rumeen Farhana went to the central Shaheed Minar in Sarail upazila to pay tribute she allegedly faced obstruction...